[Met Concert or Gala] CID:140450



Gala Program
Metropolitan Opera House, Sun, January 6, 1946




Gala Program



Metropolitan Opera House
January 6, 1946

GALA PROGRAM

Fidelio: Overture

La Traviata: Act I
Violetta................Nadine Conner
Flora...................Thelma Altman
Alfredo.................Richard Tucker
Gastone.................Lodovico Oliviero
Baron Douphol...........Arthur Kent
Marquis d'Obigny........William Hargrave

Lakmé: Viens, Mallika
Pierrette Alarie
Martha Lipton

Le Nozze di Figaro: Non più andrai
Norman Cordon

Pagliacci: Ballatella
Marita Farell

Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
Jussi Björling

La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
Marina Svetlova
Leon Varkas
Josef Carmassi

Rigoletto: Act III Excerpts
Gilda...................Mimi Benzell
Maddalena...............Martha Lipton
Duke of Mantua..........Richard Tucker
Rigoletto...............George Cehanovsky
Sparafucile.............William Hargrave

Carmen: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante
Eleanor Steber

La Gioconda: Cielo e mar
Jussi Björling

La Forza del Destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio!
Irene Jessner

Simon Boccanegra: Il lacerato spirito
Norman Cordon

Faust: Kermesse Scene
Marguerite..............Marita Farell
Siebel..................Thelma Altman
Faust...................Thomas Hayward
Valentin................Robert Merrill
Mephistopheles..........Nicola Moscona
Wagner..................Arthur Kent

Conductor...............Paul Breisach

Director................Désiré Defrère
Choreographer...........Boris Romanoff

[The excerpts from La Traviata, Rigoletto and Faust were performed in costume.]





The excerpts from La Traviata, Rigoletto and Faust were performed in costume.

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